Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-05-27
IN GENERAL.

Queen Victoria is said to have astonished
people at AK les Bains by her dowdy APP
pearance.
The first colored man ever elected mayor
of a town north of the Ohio river is Isaiah
Tuppins of Reedville, o.
The Chinese Lord High Executioner"
thinks he does a good stroke of work when
he chops off 20 heads in two minutes.
st. Louis is planning to secure the seec-
ton of that city as the meeting place of
the Democ ratio national convention next
year
The American ship Charles H. Marshall
which cleared from London on the 9TH of
December for Philadelphia or New York,
with % men, is given up for lost
W. H. Parkinson of Mineral Point, Wis,
while sowing oats, found gold ring on the
point of one of the seeder teeth. The ring
was lost about 30 years ago by a young lady
passing over the farm.
The empress of Austria has become a
great pedestrian. The other day she walked
from Herculesbad in Hungary TO the Rou
manian boundary, distance of % miles,
without resting
Cornelius Vanderbilt is an uncompromis-
ing total abstinence man. A row of stores
is to be built this summer opposite the
Grand Central depot and Vanderbilt has
provided in the deeds for perpetual prohi-
bition of the liquor traffic on the premises.
The family of the late Henry Ward
Beecher are said to have received informa-
ton recently of what appeared to be plot
to steal the body from the receiving vault
of Greenwood cemetery, and two police
men have since been guarding the vault.
A father who can educate and won't edu-
cate must be made to educate. A Big Rap
ids, Mich, man has been prosecuted for
keeping his son out of school and required
| to give a 500 bond that he will send the
boy to school twenty weeks in the year.
The late Maharaiah of India had some
thing laid away for a rainy day. Over
| S25, 900, 600 of treasure has been found in
vaults dug beneath the palace, and the In
dian government has appropriated it as
loan for the young maharajah.
In commenting on John Bright's state
ment that the "protectionists in the United
States are burdened with a large surplus
revenue" the London Globe exclaims
1--WE wish the free traders ON this side of
the pond could point to the same oppressive
state of things"
Gen. Grout has remembered the G. A R.
post of Barton Landing by giving a gavel
for its use made from tree cut in front
of the place of the famous charge of Pick
ett's brigade. The head of the gavel is
turned out as to expose to view minnie
ball which the tree took instead of some
soldier
Rev G. E. McArdle, pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Lafayette, n. Y, has
left his church under a cloud, having been
examined by the presbytery ON charge
of falsehood He once arranged with the
organist that when in his sermon he de
scribed all mankind waiting for the angel
Gabriel, the organist should sound the or
gan at the words, elbow, Gabriel, Blow"
McArdle was given to all manner of stage
tricks in the pulpit.
DIR. McGlynn has advanced a very up
setting conception of the power of the pope.
He insists that he has done nothing to sub
ject him to ecclesiastical discipline, and
that the pope cannot excommunicate him
because the pope is not infallible in scien-
tifc or political matters and if, neverthe-
less, the pope should excommunicate him,
then 81 would in spite of that remain as
good, possibly better, Catholic than the
pope himself.
''The whirligig of time" is illustrated by
a Kansas City incident. The sons of the
Gov. Crittenden who hired Jesse James
murdered because he did not dare to arrest
him. run real-estate office, and their of
fee boy is Jesse James, jr., the l4-years-
old son of the bandit. This is not an at
tempted reparation or bit of remorse or
poetical Justice merely the haphazard re
suit of an advertisement in which the place
was given to the first applicant,
About $4,000 acres of the largest forest
tract in eastern Massachusetts, have been
devastated by fire, set by spark from a
locomotive of the Old Colony railroad This
is a very considerable calamity. The Pill
grim fathers, who settled the old colony of
plxyY,o,tfb enpaaaHa1 in guhluinp the
forest back of that town, and it has re-
manned a woodland for 10 miles 10 this day,
and this woodland, though it has been
pierced by railroad and canal, extends
down on the shoulder of the Cape In its
purlieus are left the only wild deer in Mas
sachusetts, under protection of the law.
Many deer were driven out by this fire,
and many birds made homeless.
Norton Brothers of Chicago employ $50
hands. A year ago the firm decided to in
, troduce the profit sharing system, guaran-
/, teeing TO divide not less than $40, 900 among
those employees who had worked for the
firm at least six months during the year,
and who had not left their work without
the consent of the firm or been discharged
for cause Recently the firm divided Sl3,-
275 among the employees each receiving
n Der cent ON his earnings for the year, or
A from S3S to $1l5 each. They are satisfied
t and not inclined to strike or in any way in
A terfere with the business of the concern.
a Henry j. Peters of Milwaukee died near
b. ly year ago, aged 60 For many years
he kept store and bore the reputation of
a being a miser. He declined 10 make a will
i or sgive his wife accurate information
/ as to his affairs, but told her that af-
I ter his death she would find that he had
: left plenty for herself and her children.
i One day recently the sewer under the house
became clogged and workmen were engag
a ed to remedy the trouble On taking up
the flooring of the cellar preparatory To
their work the men came across a heavy
box filed with gold coin, dollars, eagles
!. and foreign money, TO the amount of S2O,-
600